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“Call it good timing or a lucky alignment of circumstances. But given that very little is just pure luck anymore, I’ll suggest that composer/pianist Timo Andres and his team knew exactly what they were doing.”
Composer and pianist Timo Andres discusses his current projects, including our new studio album release, The Blind Banister.
“It is not unusual for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to hire virtuoso pianists as guest artists. It is also quite common for the orchestra to commission new works from noted contemporary composers.'“
We are pleased to share that composer Timothy Andres’ debut CD release Shy and Mighty will be released by Nonesuch Records on May 18, 2010. The album includes ten interrelated piano pieces performed by Timo and pianist David Kaplan. Alex Ross from The New Yorker says the recording “is the kind of sprawling, brazen work that a young composer should write” and achieves “an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene… Nothing is harder for a young composer than to find an individual voice. Andres is on his way: more mighty than shy, he sounds like himself.”
Timo’s CD Release Concert is Monday, May 17 at Le Poisson Rouge (7:30pm). Since the release also coincides with our Home Stretch concert, you can purchase tickets to our May 20 concert at Monday’s event and receive a free copy of Shy and Mighty!
World-renowned soprano and leading new music muse Dawn Upshaw, and
have invited Metropolis Ensemble to perform the newly arranged
Three Pieces from Piosenki
by composer
at a gala dinner held in Upshaw’s honor at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York City on May 28, 2008. The annual event organized by Meet the Composer honors a prominent American artist. The benefit committee includes Esa-Pekka Salonen, James Levine, Robert Spano, Osvaldo Golijov, John Adams, among others.
Upshaw was involved in the original Carnegie Hall commission of
Piosenki
, and has recently been championing Bruce’s music, commissioning an opera from him for her students on the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College, NY and scheduling performances of
Piosenki
herself in the fall. Other pieces selected for the event are by John Harbison and Tania Leon, both of whom will be in attendance.